The Theft of Thor's Hammer Analysis
Symbolism, Imagery, Allegory
Setting
Asgard and Jotunheim, A Wedding FeastIn Norse cosmology, Asgard, the land of the Aesir gods, and Jotunheim, the land of the giants, are separated by a the Iving River, which never freezes over, mak...
Context
The story of how Thor gets his hammer back comes to us from the poem "Thrymskvitha" in a medieval manuscript collection of Norse mythology called the Poetic Edda. Although the collection first appe...
The Hero's Journey
The Hero's Journey is a framework that scholar Joseph Campbell came up with that many myths and stories follow. Many storytellers and story-readers find it a useful way to look at tale. (That's ac...